[ITP] ImageMagick-6.7.6.2-1

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Sun Apr 1 04:52:00 GMT 2012


On 2012-03-31 05:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I'm a bit puzzled.  Version 6.3.0.1 came with a library package called
> libMagick10.  6.4.0.6 came with a library called libImageMagick1, and
> now we get libMagickCore5.
>
> Is there some secret scheme behind the changing library names?

Previously the actual libraries were named libMagick (low-level core), 
libWand (high-level API), and libMagick++ (C++ bindings).  Starting with 
6.3.8.5 (yes, a patch release), the first two were changed to 
libMagickCore and libMagickWand, and the ABI versions reset (even though 
the C++ library wasn't renamed!).

When the last maintainer packaged 6.4.0.6, instead of calling it 
libMagick1, he called it libImageMagick1 to avoid conflicting with older 
versions when the ABI numbers jumped again (remember, there was a 
libMagick6 package way back when, and sure enough, they're at ABI 5 again).

I never liked the libImageMagick1 naming, for two reasons: 1) there is 
no library named "libImageMagick", and 2) it doesn't match the name of 
the -devel package.  So I was planning to use libMagickCore5 instead and 
ITA it due to the previously announced security vulnerabilities, then 
Marco beat me to it (which is just fine with me).

> And, after uploading 6.7.6.2-1, can we remove 6.3.0.1 together with
> libMagick10, given that it's not used by any package in the distro?

Absolutely, and once autotrace and pstoedit are rebuilt, libImageMagick1 
should go as well due to the security vulnerabilities.


Yaakov



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